Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be a good idea, they said, for civilian doctors to get blood banks organized and join in the civil defense program. Light clothes are best to wear for an atomic bombing (Hiroshima victims proved that dark clothes increase the chances of fatal burns). If death does not come quickly, "the patient may become extremely emaciated." After that he may die, but "emaciation" sounds more cheerful than "atomic death...
Sybil Kathigasu was flown to Britain, where the King gave her the George Medal for civilian heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...
...said the girl's mother. "Our Wilma was killed right here . . ." Only then was it made plain that a 16-year-old girl named Wilma Coates had been killed when her boy friend's small civilian plane had crashed nearby...
Only a few days before the crash of the jet-propelled YB-49, the Civil Aeronautics Administration granted an "Approved Type Certificate" to the Allison model 400-C4 jet engine, first jet engine approved for civilian...
...April, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 90,000 new houses were started, 20,500 more than in the same month last year. Civilian employment, said BLS, is also headed for a new peacetime high of 62,000,000 jobs by September. Industrial production, which had dropped in April for the second consecutive month because of the coal strike, was on the rise again. After the disappointing Easter season, department store sales, reported the Federal Reserve Board, were "at exceptionally high levels" in April and the first half...